>>29771530>while making a good faith effort to enforce their rules fairly and equally instead of just corruptly using them as a cudgel against people they either don't like or just don't care aboutNot him, again, but they probably think they are doing the former BY doing the latter.
And there is, really, no way to trust man to keep up 'good faith' for long.
'For, besides what has been said, it should be borne in mind that the temper of the multitude is fickle, and that while it is easy to persuade them of a thing, it is hard to fix them in that persuasion. Wherefore, matters should be so ordered that when men no longer believe of their own accord, they may be compelled to believe by force'.
- De Principatibus
